Lateness To School

In the wee hours, When the wish hours of sleep flowers, To computer games still sticking And one’s satisfied lips licking; A still irrepressible interest in understanding a movie Or memorizing the lyrics of an American groovy To the end follow a longish Italian Mafia Or faithfully sum up the untouchable truths of Radio Biafra: A normal persons destined inability to short- change Nature, Retaliatory sleep’s readiness to bed-chain the Cheating Creature, Until the long and short hands of the clock have described 800AM Or over bounded to a a farther –flung AM! Some kids to their schools surface late, Because of a morning overcrowded with chores And an instruction, very stiff, very straight To further complete the cleaning of mummy’s stores: Sometimes, a school child’s dramatic remembrance of an orange tree And his wanting to first fill his satchel with what is luckily free. Lateness to school Not to be always pushed to a fool.